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Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians (nytimes.com)
Two anonymous readers share a report: Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that "patriotically minded" private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in St. Petersburg were a departure from the Kremlin's previous position: that Russia had played no role whatsoever in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and that, after Mr. Trump's victory, the country had become the victim of anti-Russia hysteria among crestfallen Democrats. Raising the possibility of attacks by what he portrayed as free-spirited Russian patriots, Mr. Putin said that hackers "are like artists" who choose their targets depending how they feel "when they wake up in the morning."
How is it treasonous?
IF Russia "hacked" into DNC emails (remember, as far as we know the "hack" was a fucking phishing link that yielded a certain someone's iCloud password), and did so in a state-sponsored way (such that you could say Russia did it, and not Russians did it), you then have to look at what they did with that access.
All they did was reveal the truth. Notice how the media and the DNC and Hillary herself kick and scream about how they were exposed. They do this because they have absolutely no defense for what was exposed - the fucking truth about how the DNC is corrupt, how Clinton is corrupt, and how the media was influencing the debates and election for Hillary.
If you want to call someone a traitor and throw out claims of treason, then look at the DNC and the US media. They were the ones tampering with the election. Russia is merely accused of exposing it. And keep in mind, we have been shown Z E R O evidence. This is on the level of claiming that North Korea hacked Sony for a shitty Seth Rogen & James Franco movie.
And no, I didn't vote for Trump.